Town records of 1840

1840 page 156.

On the last clause in the warrant Nathan Wood chosen Moderator. Voted. To not accept of the highway as laid out by the Selectmen.

Recorded by Frederick Brownell Town Clerk.

Bristol S. S.. To Jireh Brownell Constable of the town of Westport. Greeting.

In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts you are directed to notify the Inhabitants of said Town of Westport, qualified to vote in Elections and in Town affairs-. To meet at the Town house in said Town on Monday the sixth day of April next at 10 o’clock in the forenoon, then and there to act on the following articles.

1st. To choose a Moderator to preside in said meeting.

2nd. To choose all necessary Town Officers for the year ensuing.

3rd. To choose a committee to receive and examine all accounts brought against said Town and to settle with the Treasurer .

4th. To bring in their votes for a County Treasurer .

5th. To determine the sum to be expended in repairs of highways, and the manner of appropriating the same.

6th. To raise such sum of money as may be necessary for support of Schools and determine how it shall be appropriated.

7th. To raise a sum of money for support of the Poor and other incidental expenses.

8th. To make an alteration of the lines between school districts number eleven, twelve, and twenty for the better accommodation of the Inhabitants of said Districts if it may be thought expedient.

9th. To choose such other Committees or Agents as may be thought necessary.

Also at two o’clock in the afternoon to bring in their votes, for, or against a proposed article of amendment of the Constitution agreeable to a Resolve of the General Court passed March 10, 1840.

Here of

end of page 156.

1840 page 157.

Hereof fail not and make due return of this warrant with your doings thereon to the Town clerk at the time and place of meeting.

Given under our hands and seals this 20th day of March A.D. 1840

signed Frederick Brownell, Jonathan Davis, Daniel Gifford, Selectmen of Westport.

Westport March 1840.

Pursuant to the within warrant I have notified the Inhabitants of said Town by posting of notifications one at the store of Thomas W. Mayhew, one at the store of Howland and Church, one at the Town house and one at the store of Frederick Brownell-to meet at the time and place and for the purposes within mentioned.

Signed Jireh Brownell constable.

At a legal meeting of the inhabitants of the Town of Westport qualified agreeable to law, held in the Town house in said Town on Monday the sixth day of April A.D. 1840-for the purposes expressed in the foregoing warrant-the following Officers were chosen and votes passed viz.:

Moderator, Jonathan Davis.

Town Clerk, Frederick Brownell-sworn.

Selectmen Frederick Brownell, Jonathan Davis, John A. Gifford, all sworn.

Assessors Frederick Brownell, Jonathan Davis, John A. Gifford, all sworn

Committee on Accounts Peleg W. Peckham, Andrew Hicks, Freeman Lawrence.

$1000. Voted. That the sum of one thousand dollars be raised by tax on the polls and estates of the Inhabitants and nonresident proprietors of the Town for repairing the

End of page 157.

1840 page 158.

Highways the year ensuing and the Assessors are directed to assess said sum as soon as may be and deliver lists thereof-with the persons names and the sums they are assessed to each Surveyor with his limits according to law-that one dollar be allowed for nine hours labor of a man or yoke of oxen thirty three cents for a plow and twenty five cents for a cart and in that proportion for less or more time-and that said sum be expended agreeable to law.

Surveyors of highways.

Jireh Brownell, Joshua Wodell, Robert Lawton, Ellery Macomber, William White, John R. Baker sworn, Lemuel Reed Jr. sworn, Holder Borden, John Howland , Benjamin Gifford, Gideon W. Tripp sworn, Peleg Manchester sworn, Elijah Gifford Jr. sworn, Ephraim Thompson sworn, Adam Gifford sworn, Jeptha Gifford sworn, Daniel Wing, Restiome Potter sworn, Justice Sherman, Peleg Snell sworn, Peleg L. Sanford sworn, Joseph H. Tripp, Isaac Snell sworn, John Sanford sworn, Carmi Tripp sworn, Peleg Brownell, Peter Devol sworn, John Potter sworn, Benjamin Tripp, Lawton H. Cory sworn, Orrin Macomber sworn, Richard Bidon sworn, Levi Gifford, William H. Potter.

$1334. Voted. That the sum of thirteen hundred and thirty four dollars be raised by tax in addition to the sum of one hundred and sixty six dollars thirty three cents received from the states school fund for support of Schools the year ensuing-that five dollars per month be paid for schools taught five months previous to the first day of November next and in that proportion for less time and the balance divided among the Districts that shall have schools taught therein four months or less between the first day of November and the fifteenth day of March next in

proportion to the time the schools is taught-provided that where

end of page 158

1840. Page 159.

Male teachers are employed in the summer. They shall receive eight dollars per month-and where female teachers are employed in the winter they shall receive six dollars per month-and the balance divided among the male teachers employed in the winter. And the Selectmen on receiving Certificates of the time the schools have been taugth for the summer by the first day of November and for the winter by the fifteenth day of March-are directed to draw orders on the Treasurer in favor of the Teachers that comply with the law accordingly.

Voted. That the Prudential Committees be authorized to contract with school teachers-each one for his own district.

Prudential committees.

District No. 1. Thomas Records , 2. George Gifford, 3. William White, 4. Russell Sowle, 5. Isaac Palmer, 6. Varnum Macomber, 7. Lawton H. Cory, 8. John L. Davis, 9. Gilbert Macomber, 10. Wilkinson Tripp, 11. Obadiah Lawton, 12. 12. Emanuel Devol, 13. Howland Tripp, 14. Stephen Howland, 15. John Sanford, 16. Isaac Gifford, 17. Elkanah Wodell, 18. James Reed, 19. Daniel B. Anthony, 20. Nathaniel Tripp.

General School Committee John A. Gifford, Edward L. Gifford and Daniel B. Anthony.

For a County Treasurer.

Phinehas Crandell had one hundred and twelve votes.

Horatio L. Danforth forty five votes.

For the Amendment of the Constitution 43 votes .Against the same four votes.

End of page 159.

1840 page 160.

Voted. That the Treasurer pay to John A. Gifford for teaching school two months in district No. 2 in the winter of 1839 — 40- the same amount that other teachers received in proportion to the time which is $30.37.

Voted. That the line between School Districts number eleven and twelve-from the northeast corner of William Tripp’s farm north to the highway continue north as far as the North line of Isaac Tripp’s farm, then East to the highway-then by the highway to the northwest corner of Benjamin Tripp’s farm-then as before-and that the line between districts No. 20 and No. 11 and twelve extend from the northwest corner of Benjamin Tripp’s farm westerly by the line of No. 11 to the northwest corner of said No. 11-then North to the south line of No. 13-then easterly by said line to the highway-then southerky by the highway to the northwest corner of the Peckham wood lot (so called)-then easterly as before.

At two o’clock in the afternoon the Inhabitants brought in their votes for and against the proposed article of Amendment of the Constitution and were.

For the amendment forty three votes 43

Against it four votes 4.

Recorded by Frederick Brownell Town Clerk.

To the Town clerk of Westport.

The subscribers Assessors of said Town have determined that the real estate belonging to Samuel Newit and Joseph Tripp of Tiverton and Sophia White of Dartmouth situated in said Westport shall be taxed in a school district No. 12 of which you will make record. Westport February 20, 1840 signed Frederick Brownell, Jonathan Davis, Daniel Gifford,.

Recorded by Frederick Brownell, Town Clerk.

End of page 160.

1840 page 161.

Monday may 18, 1840. Agreeable to adjournment from the first Monday in April last the Inhabitants of the town of Westport met accordingly and passed the following votes viz.

Voted that William White be excused from being Prudential Committee for school district No. 3 and John White chosen in his stead.

Daniel B. Anthony excused and Gamaliel Church chosen for district No. 19.

John Mitchell chosen Pound Keeper.

Field drivers.

Abner T. Petty, Abner B. Tripp, Howard P. Tripp sworn, Willard Reed, Stanton Gray, William White, Stephen Howland, Perry Albert, Lemuel Reed, Allen Reed, Ephraim Briggs, Philip Davis sworn,.

Fence Viewers.

Peleg Manchester, Adam Gifford, John Potter, Humphrey Slocum, Lemuel Brownell, Nathan C. Brownell, Jonathan Davis, Major Allen, Nathan Wood.

Surveyors of Wood and lumber.

Russell Gifford 2nd, Abner B. Gifford, David Thompson, David Sanford, Varnum Macomber, Stephen Howland, Frederick Brownell, Freeman Lawrence.

Overseers of landing at H.E. River.

Thomas Winslow, Stephen Howland, Jeremiah P. Thompson, Abner B. Gifford.

Overseers of landing at the Point.

John Potter, Isaac Palmer and Simeon Macomber Jr..

Cullers of holds and Staves.

John Howland and Isaac L. Brightman.

End of page 161.

1840 page 162.

Frederick Brownell Town Treasurer and Collector-to have one percent on what he collects.

Jireh Brownell Constable to have $5.00 for doing town’s business-sworn.

$1400. Voted. That fourteen hundred dollars be raised by way of tax on the polls and estates of the Inhabitants and nonresident proprietors of the town of Westport for the support of Paupers and other incidental expenses to be assessed and collected and paid into the Treasury by the first day of March next. and the Assessors were directed to assess said sum in the way and manner provided by law and deliver lists thereof to the Collector as soon as may be.

The Committee on accounts made a report in writing that they had attended to the duty assigned them and found due to the several persons named in the list presented by them the sums set against their names respectively, amounting to $3177.49.

It was thereupon voted to accept said report and the Treasurer was directed to pay the sums allowed by the Committee to the several persons therein named and charge the same to the Town.

The committee also made a report that agreeable to their appointment they had examined the Treasurer’s account and found that he had received for the Town the year past. 3172.52.

And has paid out 3172.52.

The committee further report that the Town is now indebted the sum of $943.62.

Westport May 16,1840. Signed P. W. Peckham, Freeman Lawrence, Andrew Hicks

recorded by Frederick Brownell, Town Clerk.

end of page 162.

1840 page 163.

Jireh Brownell Constable of the town of Westport. Greeting.

In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts you are hereby directed to notify and warn the Inhabitants of said town of Westport qualified to vote in town affairs. To meet at the town house in said town on Monday the 18th day of may current at three o’clock in the afternoon to act on the following articles.

1st. To choose a Moderator for said meeting.

2nd. To know the minds of the town in regard to building a bridge near Taber’s Mills (so called).

3rd. To know the town’s mind in regard to building a barn at the Alms house.

4th. To see if the town will make an alteration in the line between school districts No. 12 and 13.

Hereof fail not and make return of this warrant with your doings thereon to the town clerk at said time and place of meeting.

Given under our hands and seals this ninth day of may A.D. 1840.

Signed Frederick Brownell, Jonathan Davis, John A. Gifford, Selectmen.

Pursuant to the within warrant I have notified and warned the male inhabitants of said town by posting up notifications one at the Store of Church and Anthony one at the townhouse and one at the store of Frederick Brownell to meet at the time and place and for the purposes within mentioned.

Signed Jireh Brownell Constable.

End of page 163.

1840 page 164.

At a legal meeting of the Inhabitants of the town of Westport held at the town house in said town on Monday the eighteenth day of may 1840 for the purposes mentioned in the preceeding warrant.

Frederick Brownell chosen Moderator.

Voted. That the Selectmen cause of bridge to be built of Stone, of such dimensions as they may think the

interest of the Town requires at Taber’s mills.

Voted-that the selectmen cause a barn to be built to on the town’s farm with a celler the size of the barn the first story of Stone and otherwise of such materials and in such mode of finish as they may think the interest of the town shall require. And the expenses be paid out of the town’s portion of the Surplus Revenue.

Recorded by Frederick Brownell town clerk.

End of page 164.

1840 page 165.

To the town clerk of Westport the following is a list of Persons names liable to be enrolled in the Militia.

Frederick Allen, Elihu Allen, William G. Allen, Thomas Allen Jr., Samuel Allen, Timothy Allen, James Allen, John Allen, Humphrey B. Allen, George L. Allen, Daniel B. Anthony, John L. Anthony, Alexander Brownell, Frederick W. Brownell, John H. Brightman, Elias P. Brightman, Leander Brightman, Andrew Brownell, David L. Bradley, Ephraim Briggs, Gideon Brightman, Ezra P. Brownell, Frederick A. Brownell, Andrew P. Brownell, Sanford Brightman, Abraham Brownell, Richard P.Bedon, Bailey Brightman, Elihu Borden, John R. Baker, Thomas Brownell, Jeremiah L. Brownell, Salsbury Brown, Thomas Briggs, James Brownell, Sanford Brightman II, Oliver Bailey,Aaron Brownell, Henry Brightman, Isaac L. Brightman, Wanton Brightman, Charles Brightman, Peleg Brownell, Willard Bessey, Peter S. Bessey, Pardon Cornell, Albert Cory, William W. Cornell, Godfrey Cornell, Stephen K. Cornell, Israel Chase, Joseph Coggeshall, Stephen Cornell, Job Cornell, Peleg Cornell, Thomas G. Cornell, John A. Cornell, Jonathan Chase, Jonathan Crossman, George Crapo, Frederick Chase, Horace Collamore , Simeon Craw, Weston Cornell, George Chadwick, Pardon Davis, William Dyer, Thomas W. Davis, Benjamin Devol, William A. Davis, George L. Dyer, Warren Dyer, Alvin Davis, Jeremiah Devol, Edmund Davis, John Devol, David Devol II, Philip H.Devol, Perry Davis, Abial Davis, Jonathan Devol, John S. Dennis, David Davis, Charles Dana, Abner G. Devol, Holder Earl., Benjamin Fuller, George Harmon, Paul Fisher, Clark Freelove, George Freelove, Christopher Gifford, George Gifford, Mase S. Gifford, John A. Gifford, Nathaniel Gifford, Stanton Gray, John Gifford, Henry Gifford, Elijah Gifford the second, Richard S. Gifford, Christopher Gifford, Anthony A. Gifford, Russell Gifford, Canaan Gifford, Philip Grinnell, William Gifford 3rd,Sidney Griffin, Asa Grinnell, Alexander Gifford, Peleg H. Gifford, Edward S. Gifford, Stephen A. Gifford, Gideon Gifford, John Gifford 2nd, Elihu B.Gifford,

end of page 165.

1840 page 166.

Jonathan P. Gifford, George H. Gifford, Weston Gifford, Frederick P. Gifford, Oliver T. Hazard, Andrew Hicks, Isaac Hicks, William Hicks, David Hilliard, Gilbert Howard, Edward B. Hazard, Charles Howland, Loeth Howland, Nicolas Howland, William Holland, Stephen K. Howland, George W. Howland, David S. Howland, Thomas Hart, William W. Handy,Daniel E. Hicks, Hiram Handy, Charles B. Hayden, Gideon Jennings, Benjamin F. Joseph, Perry Kirby, Nicolas U. Kirby, Alfred King, Nathaniel Kirby, Tillinghast Kirby, Edmund Kirby, Stephen P. Kirby,Harney W. Kirby, Abner Kirby, Ephraim S. King, Andrew Lawrence, Abraham Lawton, John Lawton, Isaac Lawton, David Lawton, Edwin Lawton, Robert Lawton, Gideon Lawton,Arel P.Ladd, George Lawton, George B. Lawton, Lorenzo D. Mosher, the Elijah Macomber,Caleb Macomber Abraham Manchester Jr., Otis Manchester, Borden Manchester, Alexander Macomber, Simeon Macomber Jr. Henry Macomber , Israel Macomber, John Macomber, Restiome Manchester, Alexander Macomber 2nd, Restiome Macomber, William G. Manchester,Beriah Manchester, Wanton Manchester, Luthon Mosher. Daniel Mosher, Obadiah Mosher, Robert Mosher, Ezra Macomber, Abraham Macomber, Leonard Macomber, Ellery Macomber, Pardon Macomber, Weston Macomber Jr.,Leberder L.. Macomber, Orrin Macomber, Richard Macomber, Isaac Palmer 2nd, Perry Pike, Charles Potter, Nathaniel Potter Jr., Simeon Potter, Joshua Potter Jr., Potter Pettey, John T.

Pettey. Isaac Pettey, Abner P. Pettey, Warren Potter, Pardon C. Potter, Holder T.Pettey, Jonathan Pearse, Thomas Records, Joel Rodgers, Benjamin Rider, Allen Reed, Ellery W.Reed, Caleb L. Reed, Warren Reed, Benjamin Seabury Jr., Israel Sowle, Robert Sherman, Harvey Sherman, Justus Sherman, Benjamin Sowle, Peleg Sherman, Frederick Slade. Andrew Slocum, Oliver Sowle, David Slocum, Russell Sowle,Urial Snell, Peleg Snell, Wilson Sherman, Pardon Sowle, Daniel Sisson, William Slade, David Sanford Jr., Peleg Sanford, John Stanford, William Sabins Jr., Gideon B. Sabins, George Sowle, Kempton Sherman, George W. Simmons, Lemuel Sowle, Philip Sanford, Caleb Sherman, Anthony Sherman, Peter Sherman, Thomas Sherman, Minor F. Swan, Daniel Tripp, Abner Tripp, Clark Tripp, Carmi Tripp, Benjamin F. Tripp, Gilbert Tripp,

and the page 166.

1840 page 167.

Wilkinson Tripp. James H. Taber, Nathaniel Tripp, Osborn Tilton, Jotham Tripp, Isaac Tripp Jr., Samuel Tripp, Edmund Tripp, Benjamin P. Tripp, Thomas E. Tripp, Nathaniel Tripp 2nd, Frederick A. Tripp, Holder Tripp, David Tripp, Admiral Tripp, LymanTripp, Ivory Tripp, Stephen Tripp Jr., Daniel Tripp, Daniel Tripp II, Stephen Tripp, William Taber, Ellery Taber, Howland Tripp, David Tripp, Francis Tripp Jr., Lot Tripp Jr. Abner D. Tripp, Joseph H. Tripp, Uriah Tripp, William R. Tripp, Joseph Thompson, David Thompson, Jeremiah F. Thompson, Joseph Taber, Alexander Tripp, Daniel Tripp 3rd, Alden Tripp, Howard F. Tripp, Otis Tripp Jr., Andrew Tripp, Ephraim K. Wodell, Jeptha Milkey, George F. S. White , Jeremiah Wilcox, Ezra Wing, Thomas B. Wilcox, Henry Wilcox, James H. Whetherel, Frederick A. Wing, Perry Wing, Joseph Wood, George W. Wing, John White, Henry Wait, Reuben Wait,, Daniel Wait, George white, James white, George F. Wood, John Wing, Alexander Wood, Weston Wood, Thomas W. Wood, Lawton Wood, Henry Wilbur, Solomon Wilbour, Joshua Wodell, Peleg P. Wodell. Bradford Wodell, Gersham Wodell, Taber Wodell, Samuel Wodell, Allen Wodell,Elkanah Wodell, John R. Whalon.

Westport May 1840 signed Jonathan Davis, John A.Gifford, Assessors.

Recorded by Frederick Brownell Town Clerk.

End of page 167.

1840 page 168.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Bristol S. S.. To Jireh Brownell Constable of the town of Westport. Greeting.

You are hereby required in the main of said Commonwealth, to notify and warn the Inhabitants of said town of Westport qualified by law to vote in Elections. To meet at the town house in said town on Monday the ninth day of November next being the second Monday in said month at ten oclock in the forenoon to act on the following articles viz.

1st. To give in their votes for Governor and Lieutenant Governor of the Commonwealth, for three Senators for Bristol district-and for one Representative to represent them in the General Court to be convened and held at Boston on the first Wednesday in January next.

2nd. To give in their votes for electors of President and vice President of the United States and for one Representative who is and inhabitants of Congressional district No. 10. To represent them in the Congress of the United States of America for the term of two years from the third day of March 1841.

(N.B. The polls for the choice of Governor Lieutenant Governor will be open at eleven o’clock in the forenoon-and for the choice of Electors of President at one in the afternoon).

Hereof fail not and make return of this warrant with your doings thereon at said time of meeting.

Given under our hands and seals at Westport the 20 2nd day of October A.D. 1840.

Signed Frederick Brownell, Jonathan Davis, John A. Gifford, Selectmen.

End of page 168.

1840 page 169.

In obedience to the within warrant I have notified the Inhabitants of the town of Westport to meet at the time and place and for the purposes therein mentioned by posting up one notice at F. Brownell’s store one at the head of the East River one at the Point and one on the town house .Westport October 25, 1840.

At a legal meeting of the qualified voters of the town of Westport held at the town house in said town on Monday the ninth day of November A.D. 1840-being the second Monday in said month for the purposes expressed in the foregoing warrant–votes for the following persons were given in, sorted, counted, record and declaration thereof made as by the Constitution is directed.

For Governor.

His excellency Marcus Morton three hundred and thirty eight votes 338.

Honorable John Davis one hundred and twenty one votes 121.

George Washington Johnson six votes 6.

For Lieutenant Governor.

Honorable Nathan Willis three hundred and thirty eight votes 338.

Honorable George Hull one hundred and twenty one votes 121.

Abel Bliss six votes 6.

For Senators.

Honorable Seth Whitmarsh thre hundred and thirty eight votes 338.

Honorable Foster Hooper three hundred and thirty eight votes 338.

Horatio Pratt three hundred and thirty eight votes 338.

Joseph Grinnell one hundred and twenty one votes 121.

Seth Presbrey one hundred and twenty one votes 121.

John Daggett one hundred and twenty one votes 121.

-Thomas Andros, Ezra R. Johnson, William Carpenter each six votes 6.

End of page 169.

1840 page 170.

For Electors of President and Vice President. At-large.

William P. Walker of Lenox three hundred and twenty eight votes 328.

Ebenezer Fisher of Dedham three hundred and twenty eight vote 328.

Isaac C. Bates of North Hampton one hundred and twenty two votes 122.

Peleg Sprague of Boston one hundred and twenty two votes 122.

District No.

1.Caleb Eddy of Boston 328.

Richard Haughton of Boston 122.

2. Robert Upton of Salem 328.

Stephen C. Phillips of Salem 122.

3. Nathaniel Stevens of Andover 328.

Rufus Longley of Haverhill 122.

4. Timothy Thompson of Charlestown 328.

Sydney Willard of Cambridge 122.

5. Samuel D. Spur of Worcester 328.

Ira U. Barton of ” 122.

6. Caleb Hubbard of Sunderland 328.

George Grinnell Jr. of Greenfield 122.

7. John Leland of Cheshire 328.

Thadus Pomeroy of Stockbridge 122.

8. James Fowler of Westfield 328.

Samuel L. Mixter of New Braintree 122,

9. Artemas Brown of Medway 328.

Thomas French of Canton 122.

10. Nathan C. Brownell of Westport 328.

Wilkes Wood of Middleboro 122.

11. Thomas Mandel of new Bedford 328.

Joseph Tripp of Fairhaven 122.

12. Jesse Pierce of Stoughton 328.

John B. Thomas of Plymouth 122.

End of page 170.

1840 page 171.

For the Electors at-large.

Jesse Weathon of Dedham seven votes 7.

Sylvester Judd of Northampton seven votes 7.

District No..

1. John E. Fuller ,Boston seven vote 7.

20. Ebenezer Hunt,Danvers ”

3. George Coggeswell, Bradford ”

4. James T. Woodbury ,Acton ”

5. Thomas W. Ward Shrewsbury ”

6. Joel Hayden, Williamsburg ”

7. George W. Sterling East Barrington ”

8 . Charles Starkwhether, Northampton ”

9. Bucklin Fitz, Holliston ”

10. Benjamin Burt,Freetown ”

11.Lenas D.Bassett, Barnstable ”

12.Arel Ames, Marshfield ”

For Representative to Congress.

Honorable Henry Williams of Taunton three hundred and twenty eight votes 328.

Honorable Nathaniel B. Borden of Fall River one hundred and twenty two votes 122.

For Representative to General Court .

Honorable James H. Handy was chosen.

Recorded by Frederick Brownell Town Clerk.

End of page 171.

In 1840 page 172.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Bristol S. S.. To Jireh Brownell Constable of the Town of Westport. Greeting

You are hereby required in the name of said Commonwealth to notify and warn the Freeholders and other Inhabitants of the Town of Westport duly qualified to vote for Representatives in the General Court. To assemble at the Town house in said Town on Monday the Fourth day of January next at at 10 o’clock in the forenoon to give in their votes to the Selectmen for one Representative, that is and Inhabitant of Congressional District No. 10. To represent them in the Congress of the United States of America, for the term of two years from the Fourth day of March A.D. 1841.

Hereof fail not and make return of this warrant with your doings thereon at or before said time of meeting.

Given under our hands and seals at Westport the sixth day of December 1840.

Signed Frederick Brownell, Jonathan Davis, John A. Gifford, Selectmen.

Pursuant to the within warrant I have notified and warned the Inhabitants of said Town of Westport by posting up notifications one at the store of Church and Anthony, one at the town house and one at the store of Frederick Brownell to meet at the time and place and for the purposes within mentioned.

Westport December 14, 1840 ,signed Jireh Brownell Constable.

At a legal meeting of the Inhabitants of Westport held at the Town house in said town on Monday the Fourth day of January 1841-for the purpose expressed in the foregoing warrant. Votes for

end of page 172.

1840 page 173.

For the following Persons were given in sorted counted. Record and declaration thereof made as by the Constitution is directed.

And were.

For honorable Henry Williams one hundred and eighty nine votes. 189

For honorable Nathaniel B. Borden one hundred and fifteen votes. 115

For George Washington Johnson eight votes. 8

Recorded by Frederick Brownell T.. Clerk.

End of page 173.